Today I was wondering if our day would have looked different if we had schooled children in our family. After all, it is August Bank Holiday Monday, presumably a great family day at the end of a three day weekend. I suspect if both daddy and I worked, we might feel the need to spend this precious day together doing something 'family' based. And what a lovely sunny day it would have been, if that's what we had decided to do. But it wasn't.
Along with many other people, today we did jobs around the house. It's not something that we find much time for. In between, family events, visiting family, church goings on, squeezing in the things that need doing every day and the occasional bit of sleep, there isn't much time left. But today we spent the whole day doing a few jobs. Daddy mostly coated the wooden items in our garden with protective wood gloss. And I cleaned the house from top to bottom, a combination of feeling extremely motivated, a sunny day to contribute towards my general disposition and having daddy at home too.
So what did the smalls do all day? Why, they helped, of course. Not because we made them but because they offered and wanted to. The boys especially enjoyed helping daddy paint the wood, dusting with mummy, hoovering (Bean), making a cake and shelling broad beans for dinner (Pumpkin), and cleaning out the guinea pigs. The truth is we would have done far less if they hadn't been helping out.
And in between all this there was minecraft (Bean), playing on cbeebies (Pumpkin), requesting a sleep mid-afternoon (Plum), lego, looking at comic books, snacking, playing with guinea pigs, running around the garden, building hot wheels tracks and a bath at the end of the day to scrub of the paint splatters. And that's just the things I can remember!
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